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Originally Posted by Steffen
I wonder what the benefit of that would be. Synthetic time (or calendar) references, including the leap seconds and leap years they bring along, are easily handled by computers and don’t seem to be causing any issues. Abandoning them would cause the sun to be high in the sky at midnight in the distant future.
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Hi Steffen,
You would hope that all software practitioners would get this right.
However, recent history is littered with examples of system failures as a result of leap seconds and the software not handling it correctly.
One of the more well publicized examples was the Amadeus airline reservation system which went down for more than two hours in 2012.
Amadeus was handling up to 3 million bookings and 1 billion transactions per day at the time. When it crashed, it caused more than 400 Qantas flights to be delayed.
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...-qantas-reddit